Machine for ornamenting brick.



W. P. VARNEY.- MACHINE FOR ORNAMENTING BRICK.v APPLICATION mm urns.191s.

Patented Oct. 24,1916;

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W. P. VARNEY. MACHINE FOR ORNAMENTING BRICK. APPLICATION FILED JAN. 9.1915.

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APPLICATION FILED JAN. 9, 1915. I 1,202,252. Patented Oct. 24,1916.

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' 75 "Pf? 1? I \62 a6 642M sraas WILLIAM P. VARNEY, OF CHICAGO,ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO HYDRAULIC PRESS BRICK COMPANY, OF ST. LOUIS,MISSOURI, A CORPORATION OF MISSOURI.

MACHINE FOR'ORNAMEN TING BRICK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

V Patented Oct. 24, 1916.

Application filed January 9, 1915. Serial No. 1,329.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM P. VARNEY, a citizen of the United States,residmg at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State 1 of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for OrnamentingBrick, of which the following is a specification. Y r

.. This invention relates to brick making machinery, and moreparticularly to that class of brick machinery adapted to produce roughtexture brie The primary object of this invention is to provide amachine of the character set forth adapted to stand heavy work andproduce fine quality brick. V v a V A further "object of this inventionis to construct a machine ofthe character set for maintaining the depthof the "cut into the clay, insuring uniformity of design in the finishedarticle.

A still further object of this invention is to provide a machine of-thecharacter deedupon rollers 7 is an endless belt or apron scribed adaptedto operate with the minimum of working parts and the minimum amountofpower. f

' With these and other objects in view as will hereinafter appear thisinvention consists in the peculiar arrangement and combination of thevarious related elementshereinafter described and more particularly setforth in the appended claims.

Referring tothe drawings wherein similar, reference characters indicatesimilar parts wherever used, Figure 1 is a top plan view of the machine;Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof; Fig. 3 is a section on line 3+3 ofFig. 1; Fig. 4 is a detail section on line 4.--4 of Fig. 1 looking inthedirection of the arrow of one of the marking disks and its drivingmechanism; Fig. 5 is a detail fragmentary plan view of one of themarking disks. v,

The numeral 6 designates the mouth of any suitable clay column formingmachine used in brick making plants and constituting no portion of myinvention. Support 8 adapted to receive the clay column as it issuesfrom the mouth 6. The rollers 7 are carried by axles 9, mountedinbearings 1011 supported by angle irons 12-13. Extending from theanglev iron .12 are"up rlghts 14, 15 and 16, and from angle iron '13extenduprights 17 and 18. Uprights 14,

1,6, 17 and 18support side members 19.'20

connected by cross pieces 2122 and 23. The angle iron 12 carries links24+25 piv-z oted thereto by bolts 2627 and pivotally I connected to alongitudinal bar 28 by bolts 29+30. A similar construction comprisinglinks 31 32 pivoted at 3334 and connect-' M ed at 3536 to a bar 37 ismounted 'on the.

angle iron 13. The bars 2837,are connected intermediate their endsbymeans of cross pieces 38-39. At the inner end of the machine the links2532 are connected. by a shaft 40 carrying a roller 41 adapted tobear'upon the top of the clay columnpassing thereunder. Each of thecross pieces 3839 supports a screw-threaded stub shaft 4243 androtatably mounted upon the ,respective cross pieces byfmeans of washers46-47 each of which is locked in place byv superposed nuts 48 and 49.Bearings are.

provided, the one for the shaft 42 being on the side rail 20, anddesignated by the numeral 52, and a similar bearing 53 on the side rail19. Above the bearings each shaft is provided with a bevel gear 5455splined to the respective shafts by splines 5657 in such a manner as topermit the shafts to move vertically.

Below the supporting crosspiece each of I the shafts 4243 carriesamarking. disk which, as shown, comprises a disk faced with I r a sheetmetal'6061 from which prongs or teeth 62 have been struck out inconcentric series around the face thereof. The shafts 4243 pass throughopenings 38' and 39 in the cross members 38 and 39 respectively, thesupporting washers 46-4'Z resting upon the edges of the said openings ofeachv cross bar. The provision of a screw threaded shaft 42 or 43 withthe lock nuts 4849 per-.

mits of adjustment of the shaft relative to" the distance above the claystream, thus allowing for wear of theteeth 62 upon the disks 60.61.

A shaft 63 provided with a sprocket wheel 64 and; pulley 65 for suitabledrive attach- ,A second shaft 72 carries a bevel gear 73 whichmesheswith the gear 54. This shaft is mounted in bearings 7 47 5 upon thecross bars 2223 and extends at an'angle across the machine body to thegear 55 of the shaft 43 where it is provided with a bevel gear 76meshingwith the gear 55, thus causingthe first disk to rotate'in one directionand the other disk to rotate in another direction.

Mounted on the upright 15 is a shaft 77 having a plate 78 provided withteeth 79 similar to the teeth 62 of the plates 60-61.

A spring 80' forms a cushion for the plate 7 8 to which rotary motion isimparted by an outside source of power connected to the pulley 81 on theshaft 77.

A finishing roller 82 for the side of the,

column is pivotally mounted at 83 upon an angle iron 84 and is adaptedto'be held" against the side of the clay column bymeans of a weight 85attached to the iron 84 by a cord 86 traveling over a guide 87.

A finishing roller forthe top of the clay columnis located at thedischarge end of the machine and comprises a roller 88 upon a shaft 89carried by two L members '90.

placed in reverse position and pivotally mounted at 9293 upon the'siderails 19-20 in such a manner as to cause the roller to normally exertpressure downwardly by reason of its own weight, notches 94 beingprovided in the ends of the members 90 to support suitable weightingbars should it be necessary.

The operation of the device is as follows: The clay column extendingfrom the column forming machine travels over the apron 8 and under theroller 41 to the rapidly revolving plate 78 which, by means of theteeth. 79, tears up and roughens the face of thecolumn forming a novel,distinctive and ornamental design upon the clay. The side of the columnis finished by the roller 82. The top of the column is similarlyroughened and ornamented by the teeth of the two platesGO, 61.Inequalities in the height of the clay stream cause the roller 41 to beraised or.lowered, causing a corresponding movement of the parallel bars28 37,'thus raising or lowering the, cross members 38 -39 and the shafts42' and 43 and the roughening disks carried thereby, thus keeping thedepth of cut of the teeth atsubstantially the same, insuring uniformityof design. The longitudinal movement of the cross bars 38-39 in makingeither an up 'oridown movement due to the link bars 28- 37'is'compensated for by the spaces 38 and 39 which allow the respectivecross bars be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

Having thus described my invention What I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is:

1..In a machine for ornamenting brick,

the combination with means for conveying a clay column, of asubstantially fiat rotary marking device located in position to contacta surface of the column, and means for rotating the marking device in aplane whose axis is substantially perpendicular to said surface of theclay column.

2. In a machine for ornamenting brick,

the combinationwith means for conveying a clay column, of asubstantially fiatrotarymarking disk located in position to contact asurface of the column, and means for re tating the marking disk in aplanea'whose axis is substantially perpendicular to saidsurface of theclay column.

3. In a machine for ornamentmg bricky the comb1nat1on with means forconveying a clay column, of a plurality of substan-*'- tially fiatrotarymarking devices located in position to contact a surface of'thecolumn, 4

and means for rotating the marking-devices in a plane whose axis issubstantially per-- pendicular to said surface of the clay column.

4. In a machine for ornamenting brick,

the combination with meansfor conveying a clay column, a substantiallyflat rotary marking disk provided with a plurality of projecting teethon one face thereof, said disk being located in position for the teethto contact with a surface of the column, and means for rotating the diskin a plane whose axis is substantially perpendicular to said surface ofthe clay column.

5. In a machine for ornamenting brick the combination with means forconveying a clay column, a marking device in posltion to contact withthe surface of thecolumn,

and means controlled by the thickness of the column for moving saidmarkingdevice toward and away from the column.

6. In a machine for ornamentingbrick the combination with means forconveying the clay column, a marking device located- Y in position tocontact with the surface of' the column, a device'adapted to rest onthesurface of" the column, and connectionsbe tween the said device andsaid marker whereby the position of the device controls the position ofthe marker.

7. In a machine "for ornamenting brick, the combination with means forconveying a clay column, a markingdevice located in position to contactwith the surface of the column, a roller contacting with the surface ofthe column and connection between the roller and the marking devicewhereby movement of the former will move the latter toward and away fromthe column.

8. A brick scratcher comprising a support for a clay bar a memberdisposed adjacent the clay bar, a suitable supporting framework for saidmember, a series of projections on said member, and means for impartingmovement to said member to move said projections in paths concentricwith each other across the face of the clay bar.

9. Apparatus of the character described,

comprising a guideway for themoving bar or column of clay, and rotarymembers over,- hanging the guideway from opposite sides and each havinga plurality of depending scratching points or pins, substantially asdescribed.

10. Apparatus of the character described, comprising a guideway for themoving bar or column of'clay, and rotary members overhanging theguideway from opposite sides and each having a plurality of dependingscratching points or pins, together with a surfacing roller journaledtransversely of the guideway beyond the rotary members, substantially asdescribed. 1

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM P. VARNEY.

Witnesses:

HENRY E. STRINGER, WM. D. WILLCOXON.

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